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ABA therapy can often be broken down in several different components, including discrete trials, strategies for generalizing the behavior to other environments, strategies to prompt certain behaviors while minimizing others, reinforcement methods and decisions that are based on outcomes.

Many analysts use a strategy in which they provide the most obvious prompts during the early discrete trial training sessions, then provide prompts that become increasingly less noticeable. Eventually, the prompting is eliminated completely so that the client can give the desired response without needing the prompt. Prompting should be gradually faded out over the shortest period of time possible.

The most current trend is to use a combination of these research-based approaches. All of them have been demonstrated to be successful. People who intend to pursue an applied behavioral analysis degree will most likely use a combination of them in their practice.

ABA Careers

A person who completes a degree in applied behavioral analysis has multiple career options. They can work in therapy centers, homes, schools, clinics, hospitals and other settings where minimizing problematic behaviors while increasing the performance abilities is important.